At Literary Hub, thoughts on reading Kobo Abe and Edgar Allan Poe.

Kenny Coble on the year’s best books.

Vice has new fiction from Luke B. Goebel.

J.W. McCormack wrote about Renee Gladman’s Houses of Ravicka.

Hugo House on highlights from literary 2017.

Jac Jemc documented surreal spaces in words and pictures.

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